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ads, on paid, youtube, premium, lite, what a fantastic word construct, a veritable babel of corporate policies we suffer. If we could only shove "AI generated" in front of "ads", it would be the supreme capture of the current zeitgeist. Big tech in a nutshell, if you will.
Ads are psychological warfare. Adblock is digital self-defence.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...
i thought lite was removed again because it just doesnt work
You can't give the ad-peddlers control over your digital existence.
Firefox has gotten quite good over the years. Personally, I like Zen, which has the UX of Arc, but an open source FF base.
Ads are psychological warfare. Adblock is digital self-defence.
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Ads are categorically bad, it's not just about being "fraudulent". Their stated purpose is to manipulate people to buy things - things they didn't intend to buy before, wasting their money and our planets limited resources.
Youtube used to have a lite premium but they removed that. Sounds very similar but shittier with similar/same price.
Then they cancelled it, got the email back in 2023 and resorted back to add-ons to block ads, stopped watching videos on devices that didn't support that, generally only watched YouTube on the computer for educational purposes.
When I saw it was back my first thought was "are you fucking kidding me?", I simply cannot comprehend Google's product strategy, at all. The "data-driven" bullshit for determining features, product tiers, etc. turns out to be just the McNamara fallacy applied to digital products, I can't see another way to explain the whiplash Google goes through in their product decisions, feels like everyone over there responsible for these decisions is only looking at insights, dashboards, etc. without ever thinking about what the hell the product is at its core.
Ads are psychological warfare. Adblock is digital self-defence.
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I will run on my PC whatever I want and you don't dictate it I want to run adblockers or not.
I don't think anyone minds the ads. I think we all mind the tracking, data brokers, and that OUR data and OUR profile are mishandled by a bunch of greedy thugs. So yeah, cat and mouse till the end of time.
I don't know about you/others, but I prefer the thousands of books from Gutenberg (and spend my remaining years reading from the ancients) that having some bunch of a-holes trading what I like and what I won't, without my knowledge of approval.